Overview
- Female: 5
- Male: 0
Context
In this scene all the characters bemoan their financial situation. Though all the characters are not very well off and bemoan the fact they cannot help but compare their situations. Are youngsters better off or are pensioners better off, and why do one group get more than another . It is the usual thing, one group of ordinary folk arguing with another group when their real argument should be with the government.
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Irene. "It's not just family holidays that are a fiddle, look how they price things in supermarkets, if you buy in bulk, you know, two for one etc it's a lot cheaper but it means people like me living alone pay a lot more and we pensioners are usually the ones who can least afford to pay."
Christine. "Your right, only me in the house but I still have to heat and light it just like one with a family in it."
Mary. "In fairness you pensioners get that allowance at Christmas off the government and feeding and clothing a family is not cheap but we get no extras."
Judith. "You get child allowance, how much is that a week"?
Mary. "I do get £33 a week, but you trying feeding and clothing two growing children on that."
Christine. "Try living on a State pension, now that is hard. How do they expect people to survive on £120 a week, I know I get a bit more because I have my husband's pension but I still have less than £200 a week to manage on, some of them politicians spend that much on a meal and footballers, well their wages are just appalling, they get more in a week than most people earn in a year ."
Irene. "I hope it's true what the Bible says, that it will be easier to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven."
Christine. "I doubt it, they'll just bribe St. Peter to let them in."
Mary. "What a terrible thing to say, insinuating that St. Peter could be bribed."
Christine. "It was a joke Mary, just a joke."
Mary. "Well I don't think it was in very good taste."
Christine. (Exasperated.) "If you say so Mary."
Dorothy. "Michael says the pension is going up to £155 so we should be okay when we get to 65 or whatever age we have to be to get it, they keep changing it. In the old days I would have got mine at 60, now it's 63."
Mary. "Well how old are you now."
Dorothy. "As my Mum used to say "You never ask a lady her age."
Christine. "Well you ain't a lady, so how old are you"?
Dorothy. "Cheeky mare! I'm 61 if you must know and Michael is 63."
Christine. "So just a wee whipper snapper compared to me and Judith."
Mary. "So how old are you then"?
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